The Shetland Folk Festival is a non-profit, volunteer driven organisation dedicated to presenting the best folk music from around the globe to the local community and visitors alike.

30th April - Ticket Sales now temporarily closed until Thursday 3rd.

The Festival office and shop at 5 Burns Lane are now closed as we prepare to pack up our operations and transfer them to Islesburgh Community Centre - the home of the Festival Club! The SFFS Box Office will reopen at Islesburgh on Thursday 3rd at 11am. If you can't make it along, you could try the dedicated SFFS Box Office number 01595 745138 during the following hours: The Box Office will be open at the Festival Club, Thu 3rd to Sat 5th, 11am-5pm. Our lines may be busy at peak times - please be patient with our volunteers! It is no longer possible to order tickets through completing and returning the ticket booking form that was previously downloadable on this site. Check the concert details page for information on which concerts still have availability and come along on Thursday to get your tickets if you're not already organised! Concerts with availability are: Jimmie MacGregor on the 3rd, Admiral Fallow/KAN gig on Thursday 3rd, Treacherous Orchestra/Sprag Session/Trad Seeds gig on Friday 4th May, Shetland Hotel Friday 4th, Mossbank and Skerries on Sat 5th.

27th April - Last weekend to get Festival tickets from 5 Burns Lane!

Woo hoo - it's less than a week to go now and if you're not organised yet, you can still get your tickets for the Admiral Fallow/KAN gig on Thursday 3rd and the Treacherous Orchestra/Sprag Session/Trad Seeds gig on Friday 4th May from Burns Lane this weekend. There's a handful of other concerts, including Jimmie MacGregor, that still have availability too. The Festival shop at 5 Burns Lane is open tomorrow, Saturday 28th between 12noon and 3 for face to face sales or by phoning 01595 694757 during those hours. Alternatively, until teatime on Monday 30th April we will accept completed ticket booking forms being delivered to 5 Burns Lane and we can then post the tickets out to you. You can download the form here but please note, we start packing everything up on Monday night - so if you haven't delivered a form by Monday tea time, please wait until Thursday 3rd of May when the SFFS Box office reopens at Islesburgh Community Centre at 11am-5pm.

21st April- Folk Festival 2012 Merchandise Now on Sale at Northrock Gallery

The Northrock Gallery at 133 Commercial Street have just begun selling and taking orders for our Folk Festival Merchandise 2012. Get your kit ready for the festival and enter a competition run by North Rock Gallery. Take a photo of your friends at the festival wearing a t-shirt/hoody and send it to hello@northrockgallery.co.uk and they will put it on their facebook page facebook.com/northrockgallery and enter you in the competition. Lots of fun to be had with that. We are looking forward to seeing the results!!

17th April- The Launch of the Trad Seeds

Here's some news of an exciting educational project that will form part of this year's Festival. Read our latest Press Release.

Tickets are still available for 12 fabulous concerts! The shop at Burns Lane opens for the first time for face-to-face sales on Thursday 19th April (6-8pm) and then again on Saturay 21st April (12noon- 3pm).

Concerts with remaining availability inclde the Clickimin (3rd and 4th), Shetland Hotel (3rd and 4th), Mossbank (5th), Festival Club (4th and 5th), Sunday afternoon concerts and Skerries on Saturday 5th where booking ferries is an absolute necessity- more info to be found here.

6th April- Membership reopens and ticket booking form available for download

Membership is now open again and can be applied for in the combined ticket and membership booking form which is available for download here. Note Thursday 3rd May, North Nesting and Bigton concerts are sold out and Saturday 5th May the Clickimin concert is now sold out on the basis of advanced ticket sales. Please check the concerts page for updates on availability of tickets before filling in the form.

22nd March- Updates on Ticket Availability

We are currently very busy processing Advanced Ticket booking forms. Tickets are selling well and there are some venues sold out already. On Thursday 3rd May, The Festival Club concert and Guitar Summit at Sandwick Social Club are now sold out. On Sunday 6th May the Legion Foy and Shetland Hotel Foy are also sold out. Please check the concerts page regularly for updates.

6th March - Membership Sales temporarily closed, re-opening on 6th April

The Advance Membership deadline of the 3rd of March has now passed but don't panic if you haven't ordered your membership yet! Membership sales will reopen on the 6th April - the same date as the combined ticket booking/membership order form is distributed in the Shetland Times and will become downloadable from our website. Advance Members will be receiving their ticket booking forms and membership receipt numbers around the 16th March and some concerts will sell out on the basis of advance members sales. Keep an eye on the website for updates. All remaining concert tickets and memberships will go on sale TO ALL from Friday 6th April. In the meantime, why not get excited by planning what concerts you want to attend - the details of who is playing where are now online!

21st February - Multi Award Winners and TV personalities added to complete line up

We have just finalised the visiting artiste line up for the 32nd annual event by adding three more acts. This brings the total number of bands for the Foy extravaganza to 15! Fresh from their wins at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in February, we've booked the wonderful duo of Tim Edey & Brendan Power. We've also added the fantastic Scottish singers Jeana Leslie & Siobhan Miller. The the third act has been booked for a one-off event on Thursday 3rd - Jimmy Macgregor's gathering of songs, stories and famous folk! To find out more - here's the press release.

 

8th February 2012- Two more acts announced - including hotly tipped Admiral Fallow!

The Folk Festival Committee are delighted to announce the addition of two brilliant Scottish acts to the provisional line-up that we previously announced in early January. With investment secured from Creative Scotland, we are particularly excited to invite the hotly tipped Admiral Fallow, fresh from supporting Snow Patrol at the Glasgow SECC and their sell out Celtic Connections gig at 02 ABC. We have also been trying to get Ross Ainslie and Jarlath Henderson for a number of years now, and we've finally got them. To find out more, read Admiral Fallow's biography and Ross and Jarlath's biography's on the 2012 visiting acts page.

Tickets for advance members on sale mid March and to the general public on 6th April.

And here's the Press Release

 

27th January- Advance Memberships on Sale

The 2012 Advance Membership form is available HERE. Print it off and fill it in by hand, or fill it in on your computer and print off. Note a handwritten signature is required for card payments. Then pop it in the post, or fax it. Advance members will receive their ticket booking form (and membership receipts) approx. 3 weeks before tickets go on sale to the general public. As Advance membership is increasingly popular, it is still advisable to return these ticket booking forms asap.

12th January 2012 - Provisional Visiting Artistes Lineup

.......Drum Roll!!

Happy New Year folks! It's time to let you know the visiting artiste line up for the 32nd annual Shetland Folk Festival - YIPPEE! We're absolutely delighted to announce 14 visiting bands representing 10 different nationalities - some friends from previous Festivals and many first time visitors,. Click on the Visiting Acts link to find out more about the tasty music (and musicians) heading our way :-)

And here's the Press Release

Slideshow Bob!

Photos credited to Lisa Johnson- SFFS committee member, Dale Smith and Ivan Hawick.

DVD

No Sleep til Yell DVD
Shetland Folk Festival 2010
features 30 minutes documentary and 90 minutes of concert
footage from the 30th Shetland Folk Festival.

Available at the LHD shop, Lerwick. Price £12.

 

4th May 2011 - 364 days go to

Well that's it all over with for another year but the good news is that it's only 364 days to go until the 32nd Shetland Folk Festival - 3rd-6th May 2012.

Thanks to each and everyone of you that have contributed to the success of the 31st Shetland Folk Festival. All the amazing visiting artistes, all the local bands and performers, our all important volunteers (whether in the halls, selling raffles, the stewards, merchandise sellers, accommodation providers, transport providers etc), all our concert venues, the Islesburgh Festival Club, the PA and Lighting Operators, Lerwick Boating Club Bar Volunteers and Valhalla Brewery, all our sponsors and funders, the photographers and journalists and the amazing audiences.

Without you our Festival would simply not be possible so our love and thanks goes to each and every one of you. Fae, Da Committee xx

4th December 2010 - We won!

We are very happy to announce that the Shetland Folk Festival has won the 'Event of the Year' award at this years' Scot Trad Music Awards. Thanks to everyone who voted for us and thanks to everyone who support & help make the Festival what it is year to year! Whoooooooooo!

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